2020 www . AmericanSecurityToday ‘ ASTORS ’ Champion . com : NYC Health 2020 & CHAMPIONS Hospital - Edition
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NYC Health & Hospital
Corp
Bellevue Hospital Office of
Emergency
Mgmt
• Best Emergency Response
Program
Bellevue
Hospital ( officially
NYC
Health + Hospitals / Bellevue , former- ly Bellevue Hospital
Center ), the old- est US public hospital , and one of the largest hospitals in US by number of beds , and home to FDNY EMS
Station
08 , is a safety net hospital , providing healthcare for individuals regardless of their ability to pay , and handles over half a million patient visits each year
.
This system was taxed to the fullest during the COVID-19 epidemic when the hospital had to manage trans- fer patients who required inten- sive care treatment , a massive need for additional Personal
Protective
Equipment ( PPE
), respirators , and shortages of staff f and supplies .
The Hospital Incident
Command
System ( HICS ) that Mr . Dixon put in place managed all of this with efficiency and accuracy , and when was struck with
COVID , the
system he put in place continued to function throughout the pandemic , saving countless lives under the direction of Mr . Ghazanfer Ali
Quddus .
* Bellevue Hospital was also recognized in the 2017 ' ASTORS ' Homeland
Secu- rity Awards Program .
Mr . Boyd Dixon , the director of emer- gency management for Bellevue
Hos- pital in the NYC Health +
Hospitals
System , created an emergency man- agement program that contests with terrorist incidents
, VIPs , the
United
Nations General Assembly , and multi- ple trauma cases .
Boyd Dixon , Director of Emergency Preparedness
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